Knowledge Management Portal

This project is collaborating with the WWCS project of Caritas in Tajikistan - From reactive response to informed management: Leveraging weather, water and climate services for sustainable rural livelihoods and well-being in Tajikistan - to provide scientific backstopping. The support will focus on the development of methodologies and protocols for tracking outcomes envisioned within the WWCS initiative. The thematic focus and multi-stakeholder approach of the project embody a level of complexity that necessitates the engagement of novel scientific, government and business partners.

Due to the high diversity in semi-arid drylands, land degradation cannot be addressed through uniform blanket soil and water conservation technologies (SWCT) and related policies. SWCTs are local-level activities and practices that maintain or enhance the productive capacity of the land, including soil, water and vegetation in areas prone to degradation. SWCTs also include practices that contribute to the prevention or reduction of soil erosion, compaction, salinity, etc. In order to be successful, it is required that investments in SWCT options are tailored to the specific and highly variable social and ecological contexts.

AGENT aims to transform genebanks from living archives into bio-digital resource centers, equipped to meet the needs of a changing world. Plant genetic resources hold the key for adapting crops to a changing climate, which we are increasingly facing worldwide. In order to facilitate the educated selection and utilization of plant genetic resources in breeding and agriculture, a systematic effort towards the identification and incorporation of these valuable resources is of crucial importance. The establishment of a global network will sustainably unlock the genetic diversity of food crops for future generations and make them intuitively accessible for modern breeding programs.